whether that works in the vacuum of social media and the world we exist today is to be determined. >> dana, bring us back to earth here from the twilight zone. there a lot of members of congress who said the president needs to bring this to congress to get some kind of vote of support. have i two questions. one, if they actually held a vote in the next few days, what do you think would happen? and, two, deep down inside do you think the members of congress want to be on the record with a vote? >> to answer your second question first, no. i don't think many of them do want to be. some really do. some genuinely have said in letters and in statements that they fundamentally believe that the constitutional responsibility of congress is to authorize any kind of military force, no matter how small or how big. so you definitely have that wing. under democrats and republicans, as you were saying, doesn't fall on party lines. but to answer your first question as to whether or not it would pass, it's hard to -- the true answer is it's sort of an unanswerable right now because we don't know what the